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Recent Examples of girder
Travel over this bridge has been disrupted since April, when state and federal transportation inspectors found problems, including a crack through a steel girder near the middle of the bridge.
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Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
Weather permitting, the temporary traffic stops will allow crews to set steel girders for the new Har-Ber Avenue overpass.
—Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 1 Oct. 2024
At the Venice Film Festival, where The Brutalist premiered (and Corbet won the Silver Lion award for best director), sequences capturing the sounds and textures of industrial America—the clang of steel girders, the roar of a smelting furnace—drew audible gasps.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2024
By the 1970s, inspections found that some of the girders were starting to bend under the weight of the additional lanes and traffic.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
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Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
Weather permitting, the temporary traffic stops will allow crews to set steel girders for the new Har-Ber Avenue overpass.
—Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 1 Oct. 2024
At the Venice Film Festival, where The Brutalist premiered (and Corbet won the Silver Lion award for best director), sequences capturing the sounds and textures of industrial America—the clang of steel girders, the roar of a smelting furnace—drew audible gasps.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2024
By the 1970s, inspections found that some of the girders were starting to bend under the weight of the additional lanes and traffic.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for girder
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The centerpiece is a floor-to-ceiling bluestone fireplace that’s surrounded by huge windows, skylights, and wooden beams.Clio Chang, Curbed, 13 Dec. 2024
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Customer Razan Rashidi orders her tea with a celebratory phrase in Arabic, and the men manning the counter beam, telling her that on this day of liberation, tea for a fellow Syrian is free.Rob Schmitz, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
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At that time, city engineers determined that its badly cracked cantilevers, or wing-like bridge supports, required costly repair or full replacement.Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 4 Dec. 2024
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There were box wings, tube wings, cantilever wings, rotating wings, and wings that looked like Venetian blinds.David Szondy, New Atlas, 1 Dec. 2024
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Whatever else can be said, Cavill’s Superman felt grounded by WB and was never fully brought back on board after Man of Steel.Mark Hughes, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The implosion of the Titan made headlines around the world, which included accounts of the five people who died on board.Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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Its pointed arches, flying buttresses and piers sprouting ribs that branched like spider webs helped usher in the Gothic age.Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Stepping under the Belle Époque arches of Paris’ Galerie Véro-Dotat is like stepping into another century.Rhonda Richford, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
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The kindergarten playground, weathered from decades of brutal winters, had turned hazardous; at times, sharp screws protruded from some of the equipment, and kids routinely got splinters from the wooden crossbeams.Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2024
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The subcommittee's review also noted that the crossbeam and noose weren't added to the wood base until the 1 p.m. hour — the same hour when the riotous mob began attacking police officers and advancing toward and beyond the police line.Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
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This list could have been much longer and many sit in the same bracket of quality.Andy Jones, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
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As an example of how tough the bracket was, French breaker Syssy battled Lithuanian Nicka in the first round and lost—both participated in the Olympics and Nicka was the silver medalist.Jason Pu, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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All wedding florals, from the arbor to the bar to the tent, were arranged by Petal to the Metal Florals' Leslie Bish.Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Outside are a terrace with fireplace, dining arbor, and fountain, two-bedroom guest cottage, and one-bedroom pool house.The Week Staff, theweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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In his Sunday column, Jim Cramer wrote about never seeing a stock market that just keeps going up like this in his 42 years of investing and how to approach it.Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Girder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girder. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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